Terrell County GaArchives Biographies.....Hoyl, Lee C. unknown - living in 1913
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LEE C. HOYL. A prominent citizen and well-known lawyer of Dawson, where he
has an extensive practice, Lee C. Hoyl has won for himself an honorable name in
the legal fraternity of Terrell county, his professional skill and ability being
widely recognized. A native of Georgia, he was born in Dawson, where his father,
the late Levi Clarke Hoyl, was for several years engaged in the practice of law.
Mr. Hoyl's grandfather, Rev. Thomas Latimore Hoyl, a native of Tennessee, was
a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church in that state until late in life,
when, his wife having passed to the life beyond, he came to Dawson, Georgia, and
spent the last years of his life with his son Levi. He reared seven children, as
follows: John, Thomas, James B., Levi Clarke, Mahlon P., Andrew J., and Susan,
who married E. H. Scovelle. Three of the sons, Thomas, Levi Clarke, and Mahlon
P., served in the Confederate army during the Civil war, Thomas losing his life
while in the army.
Born and bred in East Tennessee, Levi Clarke Hoyl acquired his education at
Hiwassee College, and after his admission to the bar began the practice of law
in Athens, Tennessee. Coming to Georgia in 1860, he opened an office in
Americus, and continued his professional labors. Returning to Tennessee after
the breaking out of the war between the states, he enlisted, at Cleveland, in
Company E, Sixty-third Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, under command of Capt.
Thomas Brown and Col. J. H. Rogers. Soon after entering the army, he was
captured, and taken to Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie, where he was confined as
a prisoner six months, when he was exchanged, and returned home. He had
previously contracted rheumatism, at the time of his exchange having been
helpless, and he never fully recovered his health. At the close of the war he
again came to Georgia, and having purchased a tract of land six miles west of
Dawson, embarked in farming. His health improving, he moved with his family to
Dawson, and, in partnership with Major C. B. Woolen, was there actively engaged
in the practice of his chosen profession until his death, September 1, 1898.
On August 8, 1867, Levi Clarke Hoyl married Mary Elizabeth Ozier, who was
horn in Harris county, Georgia, April 17, 1842, a daughter of Rev. Jacob 0zier.
Her paternal grandfather, Jacob Ozier, Sr., was born in North Carolina, of
French Huguenot ancestry, and died at the home of his son, in Randolph county,
Georgia, when well advanced in years. Rev. Jacob Ozier, a native of North
Carolina, studied for the ministry, and in earlier life was a Methodist
Episcopal preacher in various places in South Carolina. About 1840 he came to
Georgia, and having joined the Georgia Conference, held pastorates in different
parts of the state. His health failing, he purchased a farm lying three miles
south of Cuthbert, and there resided until his death, at the age of
seventy-three years. He was twice married, his first wife having been a Miss
Winn, who died in early womanhood. He married, second, Elizabeth Kaiger, who was
born in South Carolina, and was educated in the city of Charleston. Her father,
Major David Kaiger, was born, it is thought, in South Carolina. Coming to
Georgia in early life, he bought land lying thirteen miles northeast of Dawson,
and with slave labor improved a large farm, on which he spent the remainder of
his years. Both he and his wife, whose maiden name was Barbara Crapps, lived
long and useful lives, and at their deaths were buried on the home plantation.
Mrs. Elizabeth (Kaiger) Ozier, Mr. Hoyl’s maternal grandmother, died at the age
of fifty-eight years. She reared eight children, as follows: Mary Elizabeth,
widow of Levi Clarke Hoyl; Martha Matilda; Fredonia Pierce; Anna Capers;
Florella Bascom; De Laura Zeuline; Billiard, and David Henry. Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth (Ozier) Hoyl was educated at the Andrew Female Seminary, in Cuthbert,
and prior to her marriage taught school three years. She now resides in Dawson,
and is the mother of five children, namely: Lee C., the special subject of this
brief sketch; Thomas C.; James B.; Walter H., and Mary Lou. She is a faithful
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which her husband also belonged,
and has reared her children in the same religious faith.
Lee C. Hoyl received his early education in the South Georgia Male and Female
College, in Dawson, later attending the University of Georgia. Subsequently
studying law with his father, he was admitted to the bar by the late Judge J. M.
Griggs, on December 3, 1894, and immediately became associated with his father
in the practice of his profession. In 1898 Mr. Hoyl enlisted in Company G, Third
Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry, for service in the Spanish-American
war. Being commissioned lieutenant of his company, Mr. Hoyl went with his
command to Cuba. On the death of his father he resigned from the army, returned
home, and has continued in active practice of his profession in Dawson ever
since, at the present writing, in March, 1913, being city attorney.
Mr. Hoyl married, January 17, 1906, Elizabeth Peddy, a daughter of John W.
Peddy, of Dawson. Mrs. Hoyl's paternal grandfather, Thomas B. Peddy, was born in
Georgia in 1815, a son of Bradford Peddy, a farmer in Muscogee county. Removing
to Alabama when a young man, he purchased land in Macon county, and was there
prosperously engaged in tilling the soil for many years, residing on the home
place until his death, in 1886. He served as a brave soldier in the Indian wars,
but was too old for military service when the war between the states occurred.
He married Nancy Holly, a native of Stewart county, Georgia.
John W. Peddy was born, October 19, 1851, in Alabama, in that part of Macon
county now included within the limits of Lee county, and was reared on the home
farm, and educated in the rural schools. Beginning life for himself at the age
of twenty-one years, he was clerk in a mercantile establishment for two years,
and the following season conducted a general store on his own account in Bulloch
county. Locating then in Lee county, Georgia, he was there engaged in business
two years. The ensuing ten years Mr. Peddy was a resident of Sumter county,
Florida, during which time he was assistant postmaster and express agent. Coming
from there to Dawson in 1890, he clerked in a store for three years, but has
since been successfully engaged in the mercantile brokerage business. "While
living in Alabama and in Florida Mr. Peddy served as justice of the peace, and
has held the same office in Dawson for eighteen years.
John W. Peddy has been twice married. He married first, in 1875, Mary Lizzie
Harris, a daughter of Edmond Jackson and Martha Ann (Bryan) Harris, and a sister
of Mrs. T. J. Hart, in whose husband's sketch, which appears elsewhere in this
work, further parental history may be found. Mrs. Mary Lizzie (Harris) Peddy
died February 22, 1893. Mr. Peddy subsequently married for his second wife Anna
Maria McFarland. Of the eight children born of his first marriage, five grew to
years of maturity, as follows: Susie Evelyn; Cecil Harris; Daniel Galloway;
Bessie, now Mrs. Hoyl, and Annie Theo.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyl have one son, Levi Clarke Hoyl, Fraternally Mr. Hoyl is a
member of P. T. Schley Lodge, No. 229, Ancient Free and Accepted Order of
Masons; of Lawrence Chapter, No. 96, Royal Arch Masons; of the Woodmen of the
World; of the Royal Arcanum; and Sigma Nu Fraternity, Mu Chapter, University of
Georgia.
Additional Comments:
From:
A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913
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